Shoot Em Up. Happened across it yesterday several minutes in and had never heard of it. At first, I was like WTF?? Why is Paul Giamatti talking like that? What is that ridiculous accent the other bad guy has? Then after a few minutes I was sucked in. Monica Belluci may have had something to do with me sticking around.
Next thing I knew I was laughing my ass off. I generally can't stand all the blood and grotesqueness on the screen- weird, since I thrive on it in real life- but it was so ridiculous that I loved it. One star.
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lukethedrifter
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InvincibleCakeEater
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Shoot Em Up was one of the funnest movies I've ever seen.
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Is that where he kills someone with a carrot?
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Carrots play a large role in the carnage.omaha_red wrote:Is that where he kills someone with a carrot?
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Shoot em up is the only movie I've ever walked out of. I couldn't even bring myself to laugh at it except for when giamatti was talking to his wife.
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ghostrunner
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Shoot Em Up is great.
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lukethedrifter
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Do we have a Movies you want to see thread? I want to see Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.
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I saw Crazy Heart last night. It's been getting great critical reviews but I thought it was just okay. The acting is superb, especially Jeff Bridges, I won't argue with that, but the plot is fairly standard, even if the movie does a good job of avoiding some of the more egregious genre clichés. With the actors involved there was a lot of potential for the film to be more evocative than it actually was.
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Me too. [Expletive] limited release schedule.lukethedrifter wrote:Do we have a Movies you want to see thread? I want to see Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.
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lukethedrifter
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G. Keenan wrote:I saw Crazy Heart last night. It's been getting great critical reviews but I thought it was just okay. The acting is superb, especially Jeff Bridges, I won't argue with that, but the plot is fairly standard, even if the movie does a good job of avoiding some of the more egregious genre clichés. With the actors involved there was a lot of potential for the film to be more evocative than it actually was.
Mostly I just want to see Bridges play Bad Blake. I don't have excessive expectations.